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Senior Billing Officer and Coordinator

| Coram Children's Legal Centre

The Senior Billing Officer will coordinate, oversee and supervise the Legal Practice Unit’s legal aid billing operations. Through systematic and efficient management, the post-holder will play an important role in CCLC’s financial and operational sustainability. Working with the Managing Director of Legal Practice, the Heads of Department and Coram’s central finance team, the key objective of the role is to help maximise the unit’s legal aid billing in controlled work, certificated work and inter partes costs.

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IRM Legal Advisor (Casual)

| Independent Review Mechanism

As an IRM Legal Adviser the postholder will providing written legal advice to caseworkers, panel members and the Contract Manager about individual applications and well as ad hoc advice on occasions. Legal Advisers provide on average 2 pieces of advice weekly and are paid at an hourly rate claimed each month. Legal Advisers also need to be available by phone for advice, should it be required, for the IRM panel meetings which are held on various days each week of the month according to the demands of the service.

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Adoption Support Worker

| PAC-UK Part of Family Action

We are looking for a Social Worker or Counsellor, who has experience of working directly with those affected by adoption. The postholder will have experience and knowledge of adoption law and practice and able to liaise with partner agencies to deliver the service in North and West Yorkshire. The postholder will be a dedicated and enthusiastic professional who is committed to improving the outcomes for adoptive and birth families, adopted adults and relatives. The postholder will also have strong verbal and written communications skills and be able to deliver the service to a high standard.

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Children’s Rights Manager (Advocacy)

| Coram Voice

We are pleased to offer an exciting opportunity to join Coram Voice as our new Children’s Rights Manager in the West Midland. In this pivotal role, the postholder will lead a dedicated team of advocates and to deliver direct, ongoing advocacy and independent visitor services to children and young people across a range of settings.

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Social Work Assistant

| Coram Adoption - Hillingdon

The Social Work Assistant will facilitate exchanges of information (letterbox and virtual communication) for the child between their birth family and their adopted family to enable the child to feel accepted within their new family whilst enabling him/her to feel comfortable in acknowledging their identity and giving them reassurances about their birth family. The postholder will assist with finances and the paying and tracking of invoices and other payments associated with the adoption team. The postholder will work as part of the wider Adoption administration team to support the smooth and efficient day to day running of the Adoption office (Hillingdon).

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Investigating Officer for Stage 2 and Stage 3 statutory Children Act complaints

| Coram Voice

We are seeking additional experienced Associate Independent Investigating Officers (IO) for Complaints, to increase our capacity to respond to referrals from Local Authorities to provide an independent element to the formal Stage 2 investigations under the Children Act 1989. The postholder will lead investigations, and will give the complainant (who may be a child, young person or adult) the opportunity to express their view, ensure the child or young person’s rights and best interests are at the centre of the investigation and that the investigation/review process is open and transparent.

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Children’s Advocacy Helpline Volunteer

| Coram Voice

We are looking for volunteers to champion the rights of young people in care and on the edges of care, to support them to access advocacy and make their voices heard. Whether you are currently studying, recently graduated, working part-time, retired or between jobs, volunteering with Coram Voice is a great opportunity to make a difference at the same time as gaining experience of working for a national children’s rights charity.